Center for Integrative Health Steering Committee

Michael Blanton, PhD.

• Professor and Vice Chair of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, SOM
• Senior Associate Dean and MD/PhD Program Director.
• Co-Director of Center for Membrane Protein Research, TTUHSC.
• Research Interests: structure/function of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors; development of smoking cessation agents and for the treatment nervous system disorders.
  
  Tel: (806) 319-1778
   Email: michael.blanton@ttuhsc.edu

Volker Neugebauer, MD, PhD. 

• Professor and Chair of Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, SOM.
• Founding Director and Executive Director of the Center of Excellence for Translational Neuroscience and Therapeutics (CTNT), TTUHSC.
• Research Interests: Neurobiological mechanisms of brain dysfunction related to chronically relevant disorders, such as chronic pain, comorbid conditions of anxiety, depression, etc.
  
  
  Tel: (806) 743-3880
  Email:  volker.neugebauer@ttuhsc.edu

Yan Zhangm Ph.D. 

• Associate Professor and the Founding Director of Division of Integrative Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, SOM, TTUHSC.
• Research Interests: Clinical trials-acupuncture and mind-body intervention, health services research-secondary data analysis on CAM related topics, complementary and integrative health education
  
  Tel: (806) 743-6056
  Email: Yan.zhang@ttuhsc.edu

Naima Moustaid-Moussa, PhD

• Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences. 
• Founding Director of the Obesity Research, TTU. 
• Research Interests: Basic and integrated nutrition and obesity research, endocrine function of adipose tissue and nutrient-gene interactions in metabolic diseases, beta cell function in diabetes and childhood obesity
  
  Tel: (806) 834-7946
  Email: naima.moustaid-moussa@ttu.edu